Sara Manitoski, 16 died in her sleep while on a class trip with Georges P. Vanier Secondary School to Hornby Island.

Students found her unresponsive the morning of March 15, 2017.

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Updated: June 25, 2018 4:39 pm wrote:The coroner’s report has found Manitoski died from toxic shock syndrome (TSS) due to staphylococcus aureus. TSS is rare and is caused when toxins made by certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (Staph) get into the bloodstream, the government of Canada website explains.

The coroner’s report states “microbiology cultures completed on a tampon found in place identified the presence of staphylococcus aureus. Both findings are consistent with toxic shock syndrome.”

“Autopsy and microbiology findings, as well as the symptoms Sara exhibited immediately prior to her death, are all consistent with the effects of toxic shock syndrome.”

The coroner classifies her death as natural.

While tampons do not directly cause TSS according to the government of Canada, tampon use is linked. The coroner’s service found the risk of TSS is increased with tampon use, however, tampon use is not the sole cause.

Manitoski was with a group on the first day of a two-day outdoor education trip, Comox Valley School District Director of Instruction Paul Berry said in March 2017.

Berry said Manitoski had “a full, active and fabulous day,” and went to bed with “no apparent concerns.”

The report found the teen did participate in all the activities with her fellow students but complained to friends about feeling unwell and having cramps. At dinner she did not eat much.

Other girls in her cabin also said they hear Manitoski breathing rapidly and shallowly in the middle of the night for a short period of time before stopping.

WATCH: (Aired March, 2017) A Courtenay family is desperate for answers after a 15-year-old daughter mysteriously died on a school field trip.

MurderMysteryReader wrote:I always knew using tampons was dangerous and now that is proving to be true. Unless enough women die from toxic shock tampons will still be made and sold. Save lives use pads.

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what a way to go. then again, i might be beaten to death, burned to death, or tortued to death. dying peacefully in sleep seems nicer.

so according to news Sara Manitoski, 16 was menstruating, she was having her period, so she inserted a tampon and went to bed on a camping trip.

overnight, enough Staph Auerus bacteria grew in that tampon with her menstrual blood and released a toxin that caused toxic shock and she died peacefully in her sleep.

wow.

it's pretty rare. considering all the teen girls who use tampons while they sleep. she's the only one. thus far. that we know about.

i grew up in a church that talked about how death can take you at any second, and wow, for Sara Manitoski, 16 came while she slept from toxic shock from a tampon.

i wonder what her religious beliefs were and if she is now a spirit. what does her spirit think?